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goon

(go͞on)

n. Slang

1. A thug hired to intimidate or harm opponents.

2. A stupid or oafish person.

[Probably ultimately short for gooney, simpleton.]

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goon

(ɡuːn)

1. a stupid or deliberately foolish person

2. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) informal US a thug hired to commit acts of violence or intimidation, esp in an industrial dispute

[C20: partly from dialect gooney fool, partly after the character Alice the Goon, created by E. C. Segar (1894–1938), American cartoonist]

goon

(Brewing) informal Austral cheap wine packaged in casks or boxed

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goon

(gun)

n.

1. a hired hoodlum or thug.

2. Informal. a stupid, foolish, or awkward person.

[1920–25; shortened from dial. gooney, variant of obsolete gony a simpleton (of obscure orig.)]

goon′y, adj. -i•er, -i•est.

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Noun	1.	goon - an awkward stupid person gawk, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, stumblebum, clod, lump clumsy person - a person with poor motor coordination
	2.	goon - an aggressive and violent young criminal hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie, tough bully - a hired thug criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

goon

noun

Slang. A person who treats others violently and roughly, especially for hire:

hoodlum, ruffian, thug, tough.

Informal: hooligan.

Slang: gorilla, hood.

Translations

goon

gorilla sicario

goon

[guːn] N

1. (= fool) → imbécil mf

2. (US) (= thug) → gorila m, matón/ona m/f (Hist) gorila contratado para sembrar el terror entre los obreros

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goon

(inf: = idiot) → Idiot m, → Dussel m (inf)

(US inf: = hired thug) → Schlägertyp m (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

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Prince Charles once said: "It has always been one of my profound regrets that I was not born 10 years earlier than 1948, since I would have had the pure, unbounded joy of listening avidly to the Goons each week."

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